Two days ago, David, Matt and I had an anthology based on a comic I wrote five years ago, one that had been rejected by every publisher we brought it to, no matter how much they liked it: "anthologies don't sell", we heard, "unless you have some big names attached to it." We didn't have big names (at least none that the publishers would recognize), we just had great stories, each illustrated by a cartoonist. We have a post talking about this here.

So we decided that we'd just sell it to you. We picked a day - yesterday - and asked you, if you were interested, to pick it up off Amazon. Our goal was to get to the top of the Amazon book list for just a single day, without a big publisher, without an advertising budget, relying on pure word of mouth. And in a matter of hours, it happened.

Yesterday, Machine of Death became the #1 best-selling book on Amazon.com. It hit #1 on Amazon's bestseller list at around 1 pm, and it's been there ever since. In the process, we ALSO topped out their "Movers and Shakers" list, with a 685,800% increase in sales! The machine of death inbox has emails from the giant bookstores, from audiobook companies, from people interested in bringing the book to other languages, and even an email from the New York Times. The New York Times, everyone. You did this. You made this happen. It's incredible.